Small Web September Check-In 2: Halfway House/Troubleshooting!

[enchantedsleeper]

Somehow, we’re already (nearly) halfway through the month of September 😱 Where has the time gone?!

How is everyone doing with their small webbing so far? The theme of this check-in is troubleshooting: if there’s any part of your Small Web September project that you aren’t sure how to accomplish, or maybe something that you worked on didn’t turn out quite right, come and ask about it here!

It doesn’t have to be specific to this month, either – maybe it’s a past project that you hit a wall on, or a future project you’d like to start. If you haven’t run into any issues yourself, feel free to offer suggestions to people in the comments who have!

Here are some question prompts for this check-in:

• How is/are your Small Web September projects going? Are you working on the same things that you put down in your Goals (if you decided to set goals), or something else?
• What do you plan to focus on for the second half of September?
• What’s an element of your project that you found unexpectedly challenging? Did you manage to solve the problem, or not yet?

As a reminder, this is the second of four ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates of these posts over on the event intro. There’s no cut-off point for commenting on them, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on every one or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide; all discussion is welcome.

For our previous check-in post, head on over to Small Web September Check-In 1: Links!

Comments

[ravensilversea]

Never actually got around to doing a status update last week 😅 But I had started poking around and trying to figure out how I wanted to format my recommendations, which went well for deciding how to (mostly) split them up and making a landing page/"site" map for them and went poorly in that I wasn't really vibing with the specific way I was formatting the recs themselves. But then I saw bookscorpion's comment last week about osteophage's bibliodex and went "Wait, that could work! 👀" And it did!

So the main updates I've done are posting the beginnings of my recommendations and my statistics pages! Plus fixing the navigation bar links for all the main site pages (I am Ignoring™ the fact I need to fix it for my fic pages rn) because I've renamed some page files which naturally broke the links. I also only got minorly distracted by making new decorations - I wanted some Steam-style achievements for my stats page- and exactly one (1) new fic got archived. It might be the same one I just published at the end of August, but at least I didn't add to my fic archival to-do list right? 😂

Of course, making a recommendations page means I need things to rec, and I don't have a backlog of rec lists I can just import. Instead I have 500+ Ao3 bookmarks and that's a bit much XD So I ended up stalling on my fic recs page for a bit. But a post has been making the rounds on tumblr about how we should be doing more rec lists, and I got the urge to do one. So two birds one stone, I made a rec list out of the fics I bookmarked in August and cross-posted that list to my site. And I think I'll try and keep doing that! Now I just need to figure out what other kinds of rec lists I can put together lol

[enchantedsleeper]

Ooooh, I like the recs call-to-action! I always feel like I should do more rec lists but I'm lacking in inspiration on what kind of theme to give them 🤔 I really like how you themed yours around fics you bookmarked recently!

It's great that the bibliodex template is working for you - looks really nice! I'm eyeing up your Untamed recs, which might pull me back into reading some Untamed fic xD